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Illinois governor with long track record of standing up to Donald Trump suggests he could make a bid for the White House

Social media titan Mark Zuckerberg took the stand for a second day Tuesday in a landmark US antitrust trial where his conglomerate Meta is accused of taking over Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors.

An internal memo shows that the White House Office of Management and Budget proposed reducing the combined budget of the State Department and USAID to $28.4 billion — a $27 billion cut from the amount approved by Congress for 2025.

The rhetoric out of Trump’s cabinet on tariffs is changing, with Scott Bessent pushing for a “first mover” to sign on the dotted line for a deal with the U.S.

Vietnam is Xi Jinping’s first stop on a three-nation Southeast Asia tour, as China and the U.S. escalate their trade war.

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In his first remarks since being confirmed as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios said the government could do more with less, and called for partnering with the private sector and with academics in areas of national interest.

ANALYSIS: Harvard has become the first of six Ivy League schools to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands. Josh Marcus reports

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism.

President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters